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I've known a few people to try some rare delicacies and the focus is always on it being more of a symbol of status or wealth rather than it tasting particularly good.

One example is those really expensive fruit from Japan. If you look them up on YouTube the general consensus I've seen is that they're good but probably not enough to merit paying that much for them unless you're incredibly wealthy.

Anything that's actually really tasty or unique ends up becoming widespread and it eventually becomes reasonably affordable for anyone to try. One example of this is wagyu beef; at one time it was relatively rare and very expensive, but now you can find it in many asian supermarkets and a small cut is affordable for anyone.
Many founder CEOs take little or no salary or direct compensation for their jobs. Owning a big percentage of the stock is enough motivation to make the company more valuable.

Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Jack Dorsey have all at times taken $1 annual salaries.
I guess your only choice is to vote for representatives that remove stupid zone rules and/or stop living in suburbia, and move to a city or a small town or to a different country. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I took off 18 months in my early 40s to study a few subjects that really do not have much economic value.

I would say it was ultimately a mistake. While I stormed out of the gate I got way too comfortable after a few months and ultimately lazy. The mistake was in thinking this wasn't going to happen for me. I would also say the subjective feeling of time was much too fast.

The upside though was that was my retirement basically and the realization that is not what I want from life is quite valuable.
>The critical marker for this process is the Energy Cost of Energy, a measure of the proportion of accessed energy which, being consumed in the energy access process, is not available for any other economic purpose.

Sounds suspiciously close to the classic definition of entropy, if you ask me :)
I wonder if the stuff they expel smells like ozone. Definitely a compelling approach to explore.
I have commented about this in the past and got downvoted for it. There is a reason why virtually all international conferences require presentations and talks to be held in English. If this was a German-only event it would be understandable, however as it is written on their website the CCC congress is "the biggest European hacker gathering and has grown into one of the most important conferences on digital transformation."

Another argument put forward is the existence of English dubs for every video. I have found the quality of these dubs varies a lot, since they are run by volunteers and not people experienced in live translation. In some talks there can be segments without any translation, and in one case the translator even "gave up" because the speaker was talking too fast.
I learned to code when the only thing available was syntax highlighting. I mean come on, if people with punch cards could do it, a nice editor with syntax highlighting should be enough!
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Is it? I can only think of (the very frequently noted) ‘algebra’ and ‘algorithm’.
Wasn't the feature freeze in preparation to v1?
Not saying is hasn't slowed down, but it seems reasonable
IMX, people who use the term "untyped language" generally: a) use languages with Hindley-Milner inference; b) don't consider things that can "only the program can see at runtime" to qualify as "types".
Yep. The difference between persistence and stubbornness is the outcome.
None of the images are showing in any browser I tried (chrome, firefox, safari, brave). I cannot inform the author of this, since there's no feedback link or email or even their name.
https://archive.ph/9qUe9
Why can this not just be a website? Isn‘t this a perfect use case for HTML and hyperlinks?
Until very recently YouTube did not support multiple user-choice audio tracks on a video, so they would have needed to be uploaded separately.

Maybe it will change this year, though!
Ok, but measuring chain pubs is a low bar.

The beer is a bit weird, and I always would get a headache, and the wine selection is decidedly 1980s.
There’s got to be some accidental mangling there. Somewhere. Because of that error, and still more because of the blatant error in the next sentence:

> For example, given the base string http://example.org/foo/bar, the relative string http://example.com/ leads to the final URL http://example.org/example.com/.

That’s just… no. I do not believe I have ever encountered any software which would parse it in that way, and I refuse to believe such software ever existed. It would be <http://example.com/>.

But the PDF matches the HTML. I dunno, something weird is going on. Look at the hyperlinks there, too, “http://xn--ivg but not the rest of the URL that follows, and how the -- has been changed to –. Something went wrong somewhere in the editing or publication.
>You might even get a bit of a Conway’s Law effect by committing unnecessarily to a specific, onerous work style.

I don't find it onerous at all. I consider it the same kind of responsibility as writing tests and documentation. And I certainly don't think Conway's Law applies, since for my own projects I'm generally creating deep hierarchical call graphs while being the only person in the "organization".
AI labs don't want to train models using a stack build some guy hacked up on his desktop last night that's been through no proper QA process. The cost of a training run that fails or results in a garbage model due to numerical errors are huge.

Which is why, as they say clearly, nobody is training models on AMD. Only inference, at most. I'm not sure why you keep claiming they are training using private drivers. They clearly aren't.
Yeah… I’m a bit surprised.
That happens all the time. The lawyers make money, which is why they do it.

Not just lawyers, either. I suspect a great many of us were ordered to work on projects that we knew were “dead man walking” disasters, because our bosses ordered it.
TBH 3.5 years is a fart in the wind for change in a company the size of Intel.
Not to be confused with the "lemonscape", a hallucinated world you enter when you've eaten too many lemons.
A word cloud could be a useful navigation technique if the words were clickable and the sizes of words could be customized.

They could also link to other word clouds

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> We're all just waiting for Intel to give up on the Arc GPUs because of it.

I'm sure all kinds of radical cost cutting is being proposed internally, but I'd be surprised if this was on the line. My thinking is that Arc GPUs are the "walk before you run" product that will lead to Intel producing AI accelerators, which is a reasonable bet re: a pathway to profitability.
I dont think thats for everyone. Speaking as someone who has done it.
Then get your calendar entries for 39c3 and subscribe to the relevant information channels to be notified of when those details have been worked out.
Will be a very divisive year. Media (backed by Musk) will push any felony committed by an illegal alien to further back their plan of mass deportation. This mass media plan will happen across all first world countries, which would finish convincing the average citizen that the foreigner is bad.
A lot of projects are "walk before you run". Didn't stop Intel from killing them and wasting all their time, money and effort. That's Intel's problem. I don't want them to kill Arc. It's what they need long-term. I simply don't believe they have the persistence and long-term vision to keep at it despite lackluster sales and lack of interest.
I upvoted both you and GP.

There are times when the "programming" job is best done with vim or even just a notebook in a quiet place.

Other times, an LLM or IDE can help get a new project going faster. Especially if you are unfamiliar with the language or framework. But in the latter case, do review the output until you understand it. So far even the best LLM will make subtle bugs, but unless its in a language you know well, you might have a hard time spotting them!
I would say advanced programmers were using some kind of autocomplete way before Microsoft popularised it.

The concept of IDE was invented by lisp machines, and emacs inherited a great deal of that functionality, but without the visual IDE. Great programmers were using shortcuts for accessing documentation at incredible speeds. The go-to-definition was there although limited to supported languages only, usually lisp dialects.

What Microsoft did was popularising it, standardising for different languages and making it easy to use/visual-graphical interfaces and destroying the competition the MS way, like Borland.

I would say, except copilot, all those features existed 30-40 years ago. It was just a pain in the a$$ to set or very expensive(Lisp Machines IDEs) or difficult to pirate(very important for Microsoft success).

Copilot can be replaced by competitor's products, like Claude. I use them outside Microsoft ecosystem. I use my own automatic system to access the AI.
>If you work without it, I would similarly suggest turning it in for a month.

In the past when I've tried to use IDEs, I've often given up within minutes because they would keep doing things that disrupt my flow - like popping up an entire menu of autocomplete suggestions in a way that obscures other code I'm trying to read, or autotyping a close bracket that I would have typed anyway by muscle memory, or not making it clear how to move the cursor past something it auto-typed, or interrupting me with warnings that something won't compile when I haven't finished typing it....
And I bet AWS is better at detecting them.
Exactly, this fits perfectly in the `.well-known` use cases. What a shame.
It's controversial because of how he makes fun about the people using and promoting other languages, like Rust. I thought it was hilarious.

And in case you haven't noticed, C++ isn't seen in a good light anymore for some years now. There are a lot of loud voices saying its time has past and calling for it to be replaced with something newer and better.

It's all subjective anyway, but I resonate with the feeling of fun he describes when doing projects in C++. Feeling productive and being protected from whole classes of bugs common in C++ is all well and good, but he was talking about programming being fun and I do not get that same feeling when programming in other languages.

It's perfectly understandable that you don't feel the same way though. I hope you do when programming in your favourite language. Otherwise it becomes just something you do to pay the rent.
It is an abstraction, but the safety requirements are neither enforced nor abstracted away.

C's type system can't communicate how long pointers are valid for, when and where memory gets freed, when the data may be uninitialized, what are the thread-safety requirements, etc. The programmer needs to know these things, and manually ensure the correct usage.
And I bet AWS is also better at detecting rogue actors.
At least French trains actually work most of the time. UK is just as bad pricing wise but the service is so much worse.
Your basis seems to be no-one is ever going to write bad code, anywhere, ever, and invoke undefined behavior. That doesn’t seem reasonable.

Also, an unwrap isn’t perfect, but it’s much better than UB. It asserts. No memory corruption, no leaking all your user’s data, no massive fines.

The equivalent to C++ would be an unchecked unwrap in an unsafe code block, and that would throw up flags during review in any Rust codebase.
I used to not use any of those tools. In C, I split my source into logical modules, and added a short module prefix to each function, to make it easy to find.

Later, I found out about ctags and started using it; but it's not that useful for autocomplete. I kept to my old naming conventions: one verb whenever possible, plus any prepositions (is/has/etc.), noun if applicable, and module prefix.

This works well for the programs (not libraries) I write. Libraries have a different set of design considerations.

My function names end up like:

memalloc (mem module, alloc verb)
print (no module, print verb)
gccollect (gc module, collect verb)
vecappend (vec module/noun, append verb)
Vec (module/noun)
render (static function, render verb)

Most functions should end up private (static/not exported) anyway, so exported names can be short and still unambiguous.

In languages that have namespaces like Go or Python, I use their own namespace facility. I like to avoid the need for underscores or capitals in names so I don't have to press shift to type them, but some languages (Go) make this unnecessarily hard.

Eventually, when I started working in large Python and Java codebases written by others, I had to get an LSP plugin so it would take me to the correct definition. Ctags doesn't know about overloads. And some people don't care if they put a function in a logical place or not.

My editor's plugin doesn't have autocomplete, but giving functions a reasonably-sized name (and having two code windows open side-by-side) solves that problem.
And there's more to see out of the window, and you can take breaks (leave the train for a couple of hours to explore a city along the way, then continue on the next).

And of course it's much better on CO2 emissions.

But trains need a lot of infrastructure and long delays are frequent.
It kinda happens to me on firefox, one press of the down arrow scrolls so "Here's a formula for the lemniscate in polar coordinates" in the first reply is at the top of the screen, not helpful.
But Zuckerberg still received more than 24 million in benefits from Meta. Another bluff. It is like saying you have 1$ salary while company is covering all your personal expenses.

Actually it will be better, more transparent if he received 24M salary instead of using benefits and bragging about $1.
> The biggest takeaway for me was that checklists are not a piece of paper; they're a system.

I understood this when I read about plane pilots checklists. It's revolutionary even for everyday life. Every time we fail at something (for example leaving the vacation home with coffee still in the coffee machine), it goes to a checklist.

When something failed because it wasn't on a checklist, we say (wife and I) we lacked precision. And that thing now goes to the checklist.

Having to buy a new fridge because you arrive and something stayed in the fridge for x months ain't fun (not to mention you're left without any fridge for potentially two days [e.g. if you arrive on a late saturday evening]). It's on a checklist now.

Ever had to do a U-turn and lose one hour because wife forgot the phone at home? Checklist.

Weirdly enough checklists allows you to be more sloppy, not less. It's literally taking stuff out of your minds.

Ticket you receive at a toll? Checklist: "I gave you the ticket, do you confirm you received the ticket?" / "I confirm you gave me the ticket".

It's fun too. We all learned, including my kid, the NATO alphabet. It is precise.

We've got digital backups of our recurring checklists.

Saved our arses sooooo many times.
Not only of science papers, I recently bought new shampoo and it has a "0% microplastics" label, on its plastic bottle.. it's milking people's emotions for money, like usual
Disclaimer: Linux on all my personal machines, Windows on work ones.

I feel the most attrition using MacOS for working. The UI is cumbersome with too many animations and things that get in the way; Finder is nowadays idiotic making accessing the file system a chore.
Windows in a corporate setting is OK. It does not get in the way, at least.
On the other hand it's around 7% of a regular person's career. I didn't intend the number to have some ulterior motive as I don't know how long it should take, it is what it is. But it was long enough for the board.
I'm glad we can be of service to you! There used to be a live captioning team writing subtitles but I think that effort stopped. I heard people were looking at AI-based captioning but I have not kept up with the plans for this year.

I know in previous years talks were published on YT, I assume this will still be the case this year. Normally the VOC team does miracles to publish incredibly quickly too, so you should be able to have the recorded talks online same-day.
Nitpick, nitpick: BONE was actually a BETA for R5 also, but it was also never released. The Dano version was much more mature and Dano in general is a much later version of BeOS with a lot of changes under the hood.
This could have been a parallel construction mechanism, if they had sources too sensitive then they could feed data via this project and have it successful.

Bonus points for having enemies trying to replicate the technology and observing that progress and espionage around it.
Train AI models to generate videos of your product/pet
I've been experimenting with custom LoRA training for video generation. The core idea is simple: take ~10 photos of something, train a model, then generate videos of that subject in different contexts.

While testing, I trained models on random objects around my desk. A coffee mug became a mountain climber, my plant turned into a surfer. Each model takes about 20 minutes to train.

Technical approach:
- Custom LoRA implementation
- Web interface for accessibility
- 1024x576 output resolution

Current challenges I'm working on:
- Subject consistency between frames
- Animation control
- Training stability

Would love to hear thoughts on:
1. Other technical approaches worth exploring?
2. Interesting use cases you see?
3. Critical features missing?
The article talks about compiling formalized C code to Rust. While interesting from a tinkering perspective, I fail to see any significant utility in safety, security, readability, popularity and ease of language. Can you please educate me as to what I am missing
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Fun. I'm looking into turning my old iPhone into a drone as it has great hardware already to do higher level tasks and use ESP32 for the more real time stuff like actually driving the motors based on sensor input.

If you think about it, an old iPhone 6 comes with GPS, gyro, accelerometer, multiple cameras, pretty powerful processors, bluetooth + wifi + LTE, sound + light, ambient + proximity sensors. Get rid of the case, and you have a great mini computer that can be aware of its surroundings and communicate.

On more modern iPhones, you can even use advanced tech like ARKit to have great spatial understanding of your drone and environment and do autonomous drones. With an iPhone 15, you can even get spatial video. How amazing would that be?

I wish Apple provided a straightforward way to unlock(like remove restrictions on the OS level) old phones and use them for DIY projects.
The explosive growth of so many tech companies has set the bar for everything in some investors minds. If it doesn’t go absolutely vertical it is a failure.

Unfortunately this rules out everything that involves anything physical (factories, cars, planes, fabs, etc.) and anything requiring research.

In the end it leads to an economy that chases fads and devolves into a pure casino.
for frequent flyers, radiation exposure is also a factor.
azimuth is the only other one I can think of off the top of my head
Zed is definitely the sort of person who can make an uncontroversial point sound controversial, yeah. I think we're in violent agreement here.
I think it was FUBAR before Pat came back. That was always going to be a tough ship to right. I'm not sure how much you can credit him with stumbles and successes since, but at least Arc is looking decent with the most recent release. I also think the 285k and ilk aren't such bad chips as a first foray into external fabrication. They're strong all-around performers despite some minor regressions, and they're working in a smaller power budget.
After playing with and using AI for almost two years now it is not getting better from both a cost perspective and performance.

So the higher the cost the better the performance. While models and hardware can be improved the curve is still steep.

The big answer is what are people using it for? We'll they are using lightweight simplistic models to do targeted tasks. To do many smaller and easier to process tasks.

Most of the news on AI is just there to promote a product to earn more cash.
This is actually a normal manuscript π as taught in Greek school. See https://www.typotheque.com/articles/modern-handwriting-a-his...
Has anyone heard of Meegle.com? I just bumped into their website and the concept of visualized workflow sounds kinda cool.

Personaly, I am sick of the term "workflow" since it has been overused by literally every SasS platform. But this Meegle thing seems to truly link all the tasks in a mind-map like diagram looking intuitive. No one has ever done that.

Just wondering if this approach could be a real change for cross-function collaboration. Any thoughts?